Bob Murphy

5 years ago: The Cubs trade Mel Hall, Joe Carter, Don Schulze and Darryl Banks to the Cleveland Indians for Rick Sutcliffe, Ron Hassey and George Frazier. 10 years ago: The Winnipeg Jets reclaim Bobby Hull in the National Hockey League expansion draft to prevent him from signing with the Blackhawks. 20 years ago: Deane Beman shoots a 69 for a total of 137 and a one-stroke lead over Bob Murphy and Miller Barber in the U.S. Open.

Robert C. Murphy, age 87, of Oak Park, was extravagantly appreciative that he was under the care of his beloved stepdaughter Debra and husband Paul Blakely. He held her hand as he passed peacefully at home Nov. 1; stepson Duane Reichert also survives him. Bob Murphy was an active volunteer at Oak Park Township for over 20 years and inspired those whose lives he touched by his boundless enthusiasm, insatiable curiosity and wide-eyed zest for a simple life. A memorial gathering of...

Robert C. Murphy, age 87, of Oak Park, was extravagantly appreciative that he was under the care of his beloved stepdaughter Debra and husband Paul Blakely. He held her hand as he passed peacefully at home Nov. 1; stepson Duane Reichert also survives him. Bob Murphy was an active volunteer at Oak Park Township for over 20 years and inspired those whose lives he touched by his boundless enthusiasm, insatiable curiosity and wide-eyed zest for a simple life. A memorial gathering of...

Atlanta second baseman Marcus Giles doubled in his first four at-bats in the Braves' 13-10 loss Sunday, tying major-league records for doubles in a game and consecutive doubles in one game. Giles doubled off the top of the center-field wall in the first, hit an RBI double to center in the second and a hard grounder past Montreal third baseman Jose Macias in the fourth. Giles hit his second RBI double in the fifth on a drive to the left-field corner, becoming the first NL player to...

Jim Colbert strung together five consecutive birdies en route to a 7-under-par 64 to break away from the field after Saturday's second round of the $850,000 Kroger Senior Classic. His 12-under 130 equaled the tournament record for 36 holes and gave him a six-stroke lead over Ray Floyd, Bob Murphy, Rocky Thompson, DeWitt Weaver and Kermit Zarley, the first-round leader. "I wish it was over," Colbert said. "But those guys know it's not over and I do, too. I expect to play well tomorrow, but...

Pro golf's old folks are still hanging in there, matching stroke for stroke with their younger counterparts on the PGA Tour. "I don't think they quite know what to make of it," Dave Stockton said Saturday after he and another senior, Bob Murphy, matched the leading totals of the younger players, the ones they call "the juniors," in the Mercedes Championships. Murphy and Stockton, playing from the same tees as the younger players, finished three rounds at 208 and tied for the lead in the...

Redevelopment of a Dunkin' Donuts on the southwest corner of Hawley Street and U.S. Highway 45 is expected to be approved Thursday by the Mundelein Plan Commission. Bob Murphy, architect for Dunkin' Donuts, has told the commission that the company would like to demolish the existing building and replace it with a new building that would share space with a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store. The new building would have a drive-through and stay open 24 hours. Dunkin'...

Redevelopment of a Dunkin' Donuts on the southwest corner of Hawley Street and U.S. Highway 45 is expected to be approved Thursday by the Mundelein Plan Commission. Bob Murphy, architect for Dunkin' Donuts, has told the commission that the company would like to demolish the existing building and replace it with a new building that would share space with a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store. The new building would have a drive-through and stay open 24 hours. Dunkin'...

Hale Irwin dominated like no other player in golf last year. He won everything under the sun on the PGA Senior Tour, and he probably would have won the sun, too, if they had played for it. His line for 1998 reads: seven titles, six seconds, 20 top-10 finishes and $2,861,945 in earnings. And you thought David Duval had a good year. So when May came around this season, and Irwin had yet to post a victory, the question was inevitable: What's wrong with Hale? The answer was nothing.

Bob Murphy rolled in an 80-foot birdie putt on the ninth sudden-death playoff hole Sunday to defeat Jay Sigel and win the $1 million Toshiba Senior Classic in Newport Beach, Calif. "I felt if I was going to miss it I wanted to miss it below the hole, but when it kept tracking toward the hole I said, `Son of a gun, this might go in,' " said Murphy, who won a $150,000 first prize. The nine-hole playoff is a Senior Tour playoff record, surpassing the eight-hole playoff won by Orville...